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The Thirteen Year Old, All Around Prodigy: Noah Gray-Cabey
If you watched season two of heroes, you’ll remember the quiet, high pitched voice of the character Micah Sanders, who is casted by Noah Gray-Cabey. Noah is a great actor, but he’s not just known for his hit role on the smash TV series Heroes. Noah also acted on My Wife and Kids, and was featured on Ripley’s Believe it or Not for his outstanding ability to fluently play the piano.
Noah was just four years old when he started playing the piano. His dad had his dis beliefs about whether a four year old was fit to play the piano, but soon, his opinion changed. Noah miraculously could play the piano, just by watching his father’s fingers move across the keyboard. Not only was Noah’s family amazed by this incredible talent, the rest of the world was too. Noah toured Jamaica when he was five years old, and a few months later, he was the youngest person ever to play at the Sydney Opera house. Not bad for a five year old, eh? Here’s a snippet of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not episode where Noah is featured.
Noah is now thirteen, and he’s still a great piano player, actor, and, well, he just enjoys the great life of being a kid! Here’s an interview he did just a few months ago.
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Zachary Quinto
If you’re someone who loves to watch the smash TV series Heroes, you’ll recognize Zachary Quinto as the guy who plays the petrifying character “Sylar”. Quinto works hard to portray this frightening villian.
Now, Quinto is going to take on a new role in the movie Star Trek, portraying the young Mr. Spock. Is this going to be a hard transition from villian to hero? “Acting, I’ve almost always played a hero. On Heroes, I was excited to take on the role of a villian,” Quinto tells Heroes Magazine.
The Monday after the superbowl, you can see Zachary Quinto in action at 9:00 EST. But for right now, you may be intrested in seeing him as a hero, first.
Quinto, as I said before, will be taking on the role of the young Mr. Spock. I am extremely excited, seeing as my favorite director and producer, J. J. Abrams, will be directing this movie, too. Abrams is the executive producer on my other favorite show, Lost. Really, I’m excited to see the two work together.
Have you been anxious to see a Star Trek movie, but never got a chance? Now you can, completely changed into modern form. Also, if you want to see Quinto at his best, I reccommend you go and see this movie. It releases summer 2009, and I promise I will do a review.
As for now, prepare to adventure with heroes and villians the Monday after the superbowl.
Zachary Quinto as a scary Sylar.
Kurt Cobain – Accident, or Purpose?
If you were a rock fan in the early 1990’s, you’ll remember that all time awesome band called Nirvana. Although Nirvana had many fans, some people were septible about the lead singer, Kurt Donald Cobain.
Being a small band in the late eighties, no one really knew about Nirvana until their smash hit second album, Nirvana, came out: Nevermind. With twelve songs, Nevermind was swiped off shelves in almost every music store across the country. People were obsessed. “Weird Al” Yankovic even wrote a parody off their smash song, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Any person that lived in the 1990’s heard of Nirvana, at least once.
Then, lead singer Kurt Cobain met Courtney Love. Immediately, Kurt felt extreme passion for her. Courtney announced she was pregnant, and the happy couple got married three months later.
In honor of Love’s pregnancy, Cobain and band wrote “In Utero”, which real works never will be released for legal reasons. The album, not as hit as Nevermind, again sold out in stores everywhere. Nirvana continued to thrive.
Then, later in 1993, Frances Bean Cobain was born. The girl, looking a lot like her mother, had luscious, blue eyes. She’d attract anyone.
Kurt Cobain had money, love, and an awesome band. What more could he want? The happy couple decided that they were to buy a house in northern Washington, a small get-a-way for their peaceful moments.
The next year, in 1994, an electrician went to fix a refrigerator in that get-away. Astonished at his sight, the electrician immediately called 911. On the floor, dead, was Kurt Cobain. A rifle lay near by, along with a supposed suicide note. The world famous Kurt Cobain was dead, April 5, 1994.
An autopsy later revealed the bullet from the rifle be self inflicted. For most, they mourned Cobain’s death and moved on, falling in love with the revolution of Nirvana, the Foo Fighters, formed by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Later, the movie “Kurt and Courtney” was released. It revealed shocking answers.
El Douche, who was knowingly offensive, revealed to the public: “Courtney wanted me to do it [kill Cobain], but I just couldn’t.” A few weeks later, El Douche is pushed into a train track. Could this be a work of Love?
Dave Grohl insulted Courtney for having “Kurt write all her songs”. Courtney Love was money hungry, and could have easily killed Kurt to inherit not only her money from Hole, her band, but money from Nirvana. It was any easy catch, and with the right help, Love could easily get away with it.
A handwriting sheet was found in Love’s backpack. Police never invesigated too far into this situation, and they found this later on. It was compared to the suicide note and the original “Smells Like Teen Spirit” lyrics. It didn’t match Cobain’s handwriting at all. The note matches Love’s.
Will we ever know the truth of Kurt Cobain’s death? Possibly not. All we know is that fourteen years ago, a rock idol faced his death. That’s all we can face.
To this day, Courtney Love is still fighting with Dave Grohl about releasing albums. Will we ever see another Nirvana record? We’ll have to watch in wait.
RIP Kurt Donald Cobain; 1967-1994
What a Smile Can Do
Do you know someone who’s going through hard times? Are they having trouble being social? Do they feel no one cares about them? There are ways they can feel better. They just have to realize them.
A few days ago, I felt like no one cared about me. My brother was angrier at me then usual, and I felt that he didn’t want me around. I overheard a conversation while walking by a few people heading toward my locker.
“Ew, I have to sit next to Cassidy in band!” I heard one girl say to her friend, not even realizing I was passing by. I decided to stand there. She waved, then looked to her friend to roll her eyes. I frowned, and moved on to my next class. I could hear her friend laughing.
You’re probably not in school, but just apply this thought. Every time someone betrays me or doesn’t want to be my friend, I reassure myself in twenty years it won’t matter. It helps a lot.
Focusing on what I should do, I tried to get my homework turned in and to just have fun. I didn’t sit with anyone at lunch, and I spent most of my time in the media center instead of talking to friends. I didn’t realize how hurt I was by that statement, but it sure would hit me later.
About a week later, I walked by the girl who’d insulted me right to my face. I smiled at her, and she looked at me confusingly back. After taking everything into consideration, she smiled back. This time, she meant it. They next time I went to band, I found her a lot more talkative.
Do you have many friends? Do people tend to not hang around with you. This can all change, easily, by one smile. Gaining friends is simple when people realize how smiley you can be. After a day or two of smiling at people when they were staring, they started to smile back. Before I knew it, I was gaining friends more than ever. It felt good; to finally be a part of everything.
Take this for example. I’d been crushing on a certain guy for a while, and I was estatic that his locker was only about four down from mine. Everything went down like this:
Opening my pencil pouch to quickly retreive a pencil and head off to class, it spilled all over the floor. I picked up what I could, and then shoved it into my locker, hoping that I wouldn’t be counted as tardy. I grabbed my books and was about to slam the door shut when he spoke up.
“You dropped your marker,” he said. The coo of his voice made me smile, and I looked up to see him smiling back. He may never like-like me, but smiling at people is a way to get people to smile back.
If you’re having trouble getting friends, just relax. Take a deep breath. One of my favorite songs, by a small indie band called Wilco, refrains as so, “How do you fight loneliness? Smile all the time.”
And that’s simply what I did. Putting a smile on someone’s face can make a total difference. Enough for you to gain another friend, and let them have the reassurance someone does really care.
Smile. It’s okay. People will appreciate you. If you’ve got a positive reputation, you can draw people to you by smiling.
It all begins with a smile. 
Sarah Palin – It Could be a Mistake
Let me warn you. I don’t usually judge people by what they believe in, but by their intelligence. I must make this statement: Sarah Palin is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen… ever. My worst fear come true: she’s running for office with John McCain.
Who really does answer a question like Sarah Palin? You’re right, no one. While in an interview with a guy named Gibson, she anwsered simply to a question, “I can see Russia from my state.” Mrs. Palin, let me tell you. That has nothing to do with the attack on Georgia.
One thing that bothers me is that people are provoked to vote for some one for a small shared interest, for instance being a “hockey mom” or the PTA executive at your son’s school. For most people, all that matters is that. Nothing else. No matter of inteligence or perspective on running the nation.
Let me tell you, I’m younger than Sarah Palin (okay, fine, maybe even a little too young to vote), and one thing is that I hope for each president: they have to be smarter than me. Ironically, it could be easy for most people running for office, but not Sarah Palin! Someone made a comment next to me about how great of a public speaker they were. Astonished, I looked at them. I’m on the forensics team and I’m way better than that!
Could we go through such a shocking stage where the majority of America is smarter than the people running the nation? If John McCain becomes president, I will be shocked. Possibly afraid.
What could happen? Just read about John McCain’s perspective on everything. He doesn’t care about gas money, he doesn’t care about education, all he cares about is shipping more men and women off to fight a war that was started with no real cause. Let me repeat myself; all John McCain cares about is shipping people off to war. What can we do about it?
Two words: Barack Obama.
If you disagree with me, comment. You may persuade me to change my opinion.
Vote Barack Obama.
